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The shading operation consist of let a background picture be rendered with different gradients of colors or light/dark. The {shading} tag is related to questions in which a shade operation is required.

It's an easy TikZ question for people who use it. I tried reading the TikZ manual p. 112 several times but it seems too complicated on the filling part, all the infinity and whatnot... So I currently ...

I want to draw in tikz a line that diffuses and a dashed path that is basically the contour of this diffused area. I think that in photoshop the diffusing effect can be done by a blurred stroke.
Is ...

Using TikZ, the shade option is very convenient to produce color shadings, but it produces only linear color gradients. Is it possible to obtain other transitions, and especially a logarithmic one?
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tkz-fct is great for plotting Riemann sums, but I don't see how to plot a shaded area of the difference between the sup and inf Riemann sums. I'm particularly interested in a plot with both convex and ...

Is there an easy way to shade a rectangle in tikz so that the color changes not from one to the other but several times in between. Something like a grayscale value changing with the position x like ...

I'm making a poster with beamer.
The department's printer has a specific printable area that I must stay within, but I'd like to have a gradual fade-out of my background pattern.
How can I fade out ...

I am an old LaTeX user but just beginning to discover PGF and TikZ. I am trying to shade areas between 3 curves and from what I read I could do it with min and max functions, but forwhatever reasons ...

This is an unusual question regarding rendering of a font with a specific 3D-esque style in LaTeX, XeLaTex, or any other TeX flavor.
I was looking at some fonts the other day and I came across one of ...

The code below is not working. This is because, I have savenotes in my TeX file, it works when I remove savenotes. Is there a way that I can get the code working without removing savenotes?
Here is ...

I'm trying to highlight an entire paragraph that contains a figure drawn with tikz. I'd like to highlight the text and also the blank space around the figure, while the figure itself should have the ...

I am making a series of figures explaining the photolithographic process, and need to find a way to illustrate edge beads during spin coating.
To show this I initially wanted to use radial shading, ...

How can I get a path following color gradient in TikZ? Here a quick example of the idea. On the left the result I'm looking for and on the right an example of a non path following gradient applied on ...

In Asymptote I can create radial gradient shadings using the radialshade function which defines a gradient varying smoothly from color A on a circle with center cA and
radius rA to color B on a circle ...

I know that my effort below can be improved upon considerably. In particular, there must be a way of shading the region in a single scope, as opposed to subdividing as I have done (thus necessitating ...